OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s governor spared the life of Julius Jones on Thursday, just hours before his scheduled execution that had drawn widespread outcry and protests over doubts about his guilt in the slaying of a businessman more than 20 years ago. Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the 41-year-old Jones’ death sentence to life imprisonment. He had […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas, pursuing a blue breakthrough in America’s biggest red state after his star-making U.S. Senate campaign in 2018 put him closer than anyone else in decades. O’Rourke’s announcement Monday kicks off a third run for office in as many election cycles. He burst into the […]
A group of Black men were executed in the 1949 rape of a white woman have been granted posthumous pardons by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Aug. 31 according to NPR. The men who were executed include, Frank Hairston Jr. (18), Booker T. Millner (19), Francis DeSales Grayson (37), Howard Lee Hairston (18), James Luther […]
A Mississippi 13-year-old girl passed away of COVID-19 not long after the state’s governor Tate Reeves downplayed the amount of cases among its children. Mkayala Robinson passed away after coronavirus complications early Saturday hours after testing positive. The active 8th grader at Raleigh High School had attended classes most of the week before failing ill The […]
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple’s home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year. Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark McCloskey, who pleaded […]
South Carolina State Sen. Mia McLeod launched a gubernatorial campaign this week, thus becoming the first-ever Black woman to run for governor. “I want to be the person that is running not because I’m a woman, and not because I’m Black, but because I am so connected to and so much like the people that […]
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a repeal of the state’s 1863 citizen’s arrest law, which previously stated that bystanders could make an arrest if they witnessed a crime. The legislation, which was signed on Monday, comes a little over a year after Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot by white vigilantes who suspected the 25-year-old was […]
News of Major League Baseball’s decision to pull this summer’s All-Star Game from Georgia over its sweeping new voting law reverberated among fans Saturday, while Gov. Brian Kemp vowed to defend the measure in court, saying “free and fair elections” are worth any threats, boycotts or lawsuits to come. The Republican governor said at a […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that the state is ending its mask mandate, making it the largest state to lift such an edict amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to ABC News, the mask repeal will take effect on March 10. Health experts are concerned that removing the mask mandate ahead of spring break will […]